The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-30
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
THE National Association OF Local Preach
crs in session at Harrisburg Pa, recently,
elected G. b. Stenen, or Fort Wayne, Ind,
president FOR tho ensuing year. The next
convention VIII be held at Columbus, o.,
i'd September, 1SSs.
TIE Italians Of New York City on the
2Oth celebrated with parade, which was
reviewed by Mayor Hewitt, and with sub
sequent festivities in an uptown park, the
seventeenth anniversary Of the entry Of the
italian troops into Rome over fifty socie-
ties participated.
THE Democrats OF Massachusetts met IN
convention at Worcester on the 2Oth and
adopted a platform. II. b. Lowering was
nominated for Governor. The rest OF the
Ticket was as <ollows: Lieutenant Gov
crnor, Walter Il. Cutting Of Prttsfield;
Secretary OF State, John r. Murphy, OF
Lowell; Treasurer, Henry G. Thatcher OF
Yarmouth; Attorncy-Geusral, John w.
Corcoran, Of Clinton; Auditor, William +.
Cook. of Springfield.
THE liabilities or Grovestccn q Pell,
stock brokers of New York, aggregate ST.
7o6,S2l and the actual assets 1888, 800.
THE Inter State Commerce Commission
has decided in favor Of the Vermont State
Grange IN q case against the Central Yer
mont railroad. 1t appeared that the Boston
a. Albany Railroad Company and the Yer
AAhAh oAtAtt grunge GOlAIlalNtu OF Iuo Zen
trail Vermont Company for charging a less
rate In similar service Tor long than for a
short haul over the Centraps lines between
Boston and Detroit, Milwaukee and Chica-
30. The Commission declared the rates
were Illegal.
THE report OF tho New Hampshire Senate
Investigating Committee on the alleged at
tempt 70 bribo e.. D. Sawyer by Kirk
Pierce was that such attempt had been
made. The report proceeds a. length to
set forth the temptations which surround
Legislators and the dCbasng Nvllcs employed
by professional lobbyists.
TWO men fell asleep on the railroad plat
form at Scotthavcn, Pa, the other night,
and were instantly killed bv train.
HARRY MILES and Eddy Medium trotted a
mile in 2fit al the New Jersey Slate fair
the other day, breaking tho record on a
hntf-milc track.
AT the ChonangO County (N. W Demo
cratic Convention, both President Cleve-
land and Governor Hill were strongly in
dor.od.
CArnoN d WoLvERroN's -four mill. Al
huuy, n. Y, was destroyed by fire on the
2lst with lo0 900 bushels OF grain, causing
Sl5l0JO loss. Eight fremen had narrow
escapes
REV. T.. a. CorELAND appeared at the
United Labor Club meeting at Rochester,
N. Y, recently and avowed himself for the
fHtNlAN movement. A1C hau DeGn one OF
the leading Prohibition workers, aud last
year was the candidate OF that party for
Congress.
GovERNOH HILL addressed ten thousand
persons at the fair At Eewburg, N w., on
the ed He denied that he was making
any attack upon Henry George. He bc-
bcvCd that Mr. Gcorg, was sincere. aud he
highly respected him, though he could not
iudorso his idea of putting all taxes on land
values.
SEVERAL couicries about Wilkcsbarre.
Pa, hive signtfcd thcir willingness to con
code TO the demands of the miners.
SEVEN HUNDRED bales OF cotton on a
lighter were destroyed by fire in New York
harbor he other day. Loss. S}5,Oo0
TuE New York Produce Exchange has
voted to hold daily sessions hereafter from
1880 To three O'Clock
THE Government offer to purchase four
and four-and-8-half bonds dissipRted the
fears Of a stringent money market that had
been prevailing in New York.
=. 5. WHEELER, the iusolveut IRON dealer
Of New Haven, Conn, who failed recently
FOR e, ,OO0o00, has been arrested, charged
with fraud.
WILLIAM SHOWERS, the old man arrested
several weeks ago at Lebanon, Pa, charged
with having murdered his two young
grandchildren, has made a confession Of
the crime ana implicated his housckoeper,
Elizabeth Sergent, who, he says, hold a
light in the children's bedroom while be
committed the decd.
GENERAL J. B. RICKErrs, commander Of
Ricketts, Battery, which made such a fight
ing reputation during the war, especially
at Gettysburg, dicd at New York on the
I'd, aged seventy years. He was born in
New York, June q, 1887. He commanded
the Sixth Army Corps and was wounded
five times. His death WAS caused by a
wound received at tho battle Of Winches-
ter
THE steamship Alesia which arrived OF
New York en- the 21d from Marseilles and
Naples with six hundred passengers, had
Asiatic cholera aboard. Eight Of her pas
eCngers died on the pas sage and on her ar
rival ct quarantine the health officer found
four cases aboard. He sent the Ale sia and
her passengers TO the west bank in the
lower bay.